Before Smit Machchhar, There Was Neerja Bhanot: Story Of 2 Aviation Heroes | Read
Smit Machchhar faced an unprecedented crisis as the pilot of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday. The flight was carrying 174 people, when a violent altercation broke out inside the cockpit with his co-pilot. Machchhar survived and was taken to a hospital after the plane landed in Saudi Arabia. Four decades earlier, Neerja Bhanot did not. Both found themselves facing danger inside an aircraft, and both put the lives of passengers before their own.
